Claude Debussy - "Clair de Lune" for voice and piano (audio + sheet music)

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"Clair de Lune" is a French poem written by French poet Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) in 1869. While it is the inspiration for the third and most famous movement of "Suite bergamasque" (1890) of the same name by French composer Claude Debussy (1862-1918), that is not the piece featured here; it should not be confused with the 18th-century French folk song "Au clair de la lune" as well. This is an art song composed by Debussy 8 years before his more famous "Clair de lune" from "Suite bergamasque" was written down.

Here is an English translation of the lyrics:

Your soul is a chosen landscape
Where charming masqueraders and bergamaskers go
Playing the lute and dancing and almost
Sad beneath their fanciful disguises.

All sing in a minor key
Of victorious love and the opportune life,
They do not seem to believe in their happiness
And their song mingles with the moonlight,

With the still moonlight, sad and beautiful,
That sets the birds dreaming in the trees
And the fountains sobbing in ecstasy,
The tall slender fountains among marble statues.

(Wikipedia)

Please take note that the audio AND the sheet music ARE NOT mine. Change the quality to 480p if the video is blurry.

(original audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBv1kpLBDS4)